Chapter 96: Mistakes or Learnings?-2
I tilt my head slightly.
“Don’t you think?”
Alexander bites his lower lip for a second. He watches me… As if he were evaluating my reaction.
Then it straightens up.
“Do you know what I think of life?” he says finally.
He crosses his arms.
“I feel that sometimes, when we make mistakes… God gives us the opportunity to learn from them.”
His gaze returns to Ethan’s flowers on my desk.
Then come back to me.
“And what life does,” he continues, “is to put that same situation back in front of us.”
Make a small circular gesture with his hand.
“The same mistake. To see if we learned.”
The silence in my office becomes heavy.
Alexander holds my gaze as he finishes his idea.
“And if we fall again,” he says slowly, “it’s like tripping over the same stone twice.”
His lips curl slightly.
“It’s repeating a vicious circle.”
I feel something inside me harden. Because I understand exactly what he’s trying to do.
He’s trying to plant a doubt… A guilt, as if this morning… as if Ethan… It was simply a test that I am destined to fail.
I look at him for a few more seconds, and then I respond in a calm voice.
“Or,” I say slowly, “maybe life doesn’t put the same mistake in front of it.”
Alexander raises an eyebrow.
I lean just forward.
Chapter 96 Mistakes or 1.
“Maybe it puts the same person… to see if this time we are able to see them differently.
The silence that follows between us is much more tense than the previous one.
Alexander looks at me with that expression that mixes curiosity and judgment.
As if I were waiting for me to finish saying what I started.
I hold his gaze. I’m not angry.
But I am very aware of something: this conversation stopped being comfortable several minutes
ago.
I take a breath calmly before speaking.
“Perhaps,” I say slowly, “God doesn’t put the same error in front of us.
Alexander says nothing.
Just wait.
“Maybe what it does is allow us to see what we didn’t see before.
My fingers rest on the desk, near the card Ethan sent.
“Maybe it makes us realize that we made mistakes.”
I look up at him again.
“And that we can improve.”
Alexander arches an eyebrow.
“Improve for whom?” he asks.

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